Abu Hamza US extradition backed by European Court By Dominic Casciani (BBC News Online) 10 April 2012.
The European Court of Human Rights has backed the extradition of Abu Hamza and four other terror suspects from the UK to the US.

Manning finally has day in court as prosecutors detail ‘crimes’: US Army private accused of sending secrets to WikiLeaks turns fire on judge as trial begins
By David Usborne(The Independent)17 December 2011

Bradley Manning: MEPs’ open letter to the US government (The Guardian) 29 November 2011
The letter signed by more than 50 European parliament members expressing concern over whistleblower’s treatment in custody

Iran uses beatings to pressure Christian pastor: Reports confirm jailed leader resisting campaign to make him recant. By Michael Carl (WND) 17 November 2011Beatings and solitary confinement are two of the tools being used by Iranian officials to pressure a Christian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani condemned for blasphemy to recant his faith, according to reports.

In its annual report, which was published today, the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) urges States to minimise the use of solitary confinement of prisoners. This measure should be applied only in exceptional circumstances and for the shortest possible period of time. Download PDF copy.

ACLU launches new campaign: Stop Solitary - The Dangerous Overuse of Solitary Confinement in the United States

Judge tosses suit of inmate long held in solitary. “A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by an inmate who has been in solitary confinement for nearly 28 years, saying the convicted murderer’s conditions are not extreme”. By Sara Burnett (The Denver Post), 5 October 2011

‘Judge Allows Trial on Terrorist’s Challenge to Prison Rules’ .By John Schwartz and Benjamin Weiser (The New York Times) 3 October 2011

‘After Magnitsky, Prison Doctors Ordered to Check Inmates’: Chastened by the Kremlin and the international community after the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, the Justice Ministry has ordered prison doctors to check the health of prisoners being punished with solitary confinement. By Natalya Krainova (The Moscow Times) 07 September 2011

‘Solitary confinement was the worst thing. I thought I’d never get out’. A free man after spending five months in Gaddafi’s notorious Abu Salim prison,Matthew VanDyke explains his horrific ordeal (The Independent) 29 August 2011

Andres Breivik (Norway)

Anders Behring Breivik to leave solitary confinement
Norwegian extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who has confessed to twin attacks in July that killed 77 people, will be allowed out of solitary confinement but will still be subjected to heavy restrictions, police said on Thursday. (The Telegraph) 13 October 2011

On July 1st, 2011 prisoners in California’s Security Housing Unit (SHU) at Pelican Bay State Prison began a hunger strike, calling for an end to their long term isolation and other conditions of imprisonment at the SHU.